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This module offers an innovative, research-led approach to critically examining themes of gender, sex and criminality in the Victorian period. Active participants in practice-based research collaboration, students will explore a range of canonical texts in combination with a diverse and rich array of archival, digitised online resources. Students will have the opportunity to examine contemporary materials such as literary magazines, newspaper articles and visual imagery, in order to explore how such sources help to contextualise and enrich our interpretation of canonical texts. With advanced research skills and methods embedded within the teaching delivery, the module will consider how this kind of research may fill the textual gaps of the canonical writings, concluding with an examination of how the Victorians are re-imagined in the twenty-first century. Finally, students will develop their own areas of research interest in relation to the key themes explored on the module, presenting a record of their ongoing research findings and therein re-presenting the Victorians.